English 394
Fall 2000
"Writing (in) Cyberspace"

Technology & Ethics Links

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||Free Speech||Copyright||Medical Technology--Cloning||

||Cyberethics & Cyberlaw||Cybercensorship||

Free Speech

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Security Issues

Copyright Issues

CYBERCENSORSHIP

• Blue Ribbon Campaign for Online Free Speech, Press, & Association
• Censorship, Freedom, and Access Equality: Online Resources (Wendy Gale Robinson, U. North Carolina at Chapel Hill/Duke U.)
• The Center for Democracy and Technology ("a non-profit public interest organization based in Washington DC. The Center's mission is to develop and advocate public policies that advance constitutional civil liberties and democratic values in new computer and communications technologies")
• Chip Head (critique of the U. S. law calling for a "V-Chip" or violence-censoring chip in television sets) (Ives Colin)
• Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine (January 1996) (special issue on "philosophical perspectives of the free speech debate in computer-mediated communication")
• Computers and Academic Freedom Archive (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Congressional Decency Act Controversy
• The Blue Ribbon Campaign for Online Free Speech (info and downloadable graphics for supporting the campaign against the Internet restrictions imposed by the U. S. telecommunications bill of Feb. 1996) (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• Communications Decency Act (the part of the U. S. telecom act of 1996 relevant to indecency on the Internet) (Center for Democracy and Technology)
• Communications Decency Act Issues Page (Center for Democracy and Technology)
• Digital Shout (A Thousand Points of Darkness) (info and resources for supporting the campaign against the Internet restrictions imposed by the U. S. telecommunications bill of Feb. 1996) (Richard Bottoms)
• U. S. Telecommunications Act of 1996 (full text as submitted to the President) (Library of Congress)
• Julie Van Camp (Calif. State U., Long Beach), "Indecency On the Internet: Lessons from the Art World" (1996)
• Time Magazine Cyberporn Controversy
• Philip Elmer-Dewitt, Time Magazine Cover Story on Cyberporn, 7/3/95 (article based on the allegedly deeply-flawed Rimm report by a Carnegie Mellon U. student; the story fueled a round of media controversy about cyberporn)
• Marty Rimm (Carnegie Mellon U.), "Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway" (the allegedly deeply-flawed study of cyberporn that started the controversy; site includes links to critiques of the article)
• Cyberporn Debate (Donna Hoffman's and Thomas Novak's dissection of the Rimm report on cyberporn and its reception by Time Magazine)

 CYBERETHICS & CYBERLAW

• Cyberethics
• Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (metapage of computing-ethics resources)
• Ethics of Technology in Education (1993) (an "ethics statement" "distilled from the critical works of Neil Postman, the far-reaching wisdom of Isaac Asimov, and the penetrating insights of Jane Jacobs,--- all authors and ethicists in their respective fields. This ethics statement has been adopted by public and private educational institutions and educators in Hawaii, Texas and New York")
• The "Hacker Ethic" (brief code from the MIT fishWrap server whose emphasis on "thou shalt not," succinctness, and implicit complexity shows the clear influence of Isaac Asimov's laws of robotics)
• Web Ethics
• Ethics on the Internet--a conference at UC Berkeley
• The Tavani Bibliography of Computing, Ethics, and Social Responsibility
• Computer Ethics/Cyberethics
• Privacy Issues
• HotWired and Wired Privacy Archive (HotWired Ventures)Privacy in the Computer Age (Nerd World)
• The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (San Diego, Calif.) (organization that guards against erosion of privacy in a technological age; includes resources on privacy issues)
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation-- dedicated to free speech on the Internet
• Encryption Privacy and Security Resources Page
• The Internet Privacy Coalition
• TRUSTe--concerns about privacy
• Yahoo's Links for PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
• Cyberlaw
• J. Dianne Brinson and Mark F. Radcliffe, "Multimedia Law Handbook: A Practical Guide for Developers and Publishers"
• Educom Legal & Policy Index (articles on legal issues relating to information technology, including privacy and copyright law)
• E-Law Page (articles from the "Technology Law" column in the Chicago Daily Law Bullein and other technology law resources)
• Bernard J. Hibbitts (U. Pittsburgh School of Law), "Last Writes?: Re-assessing the Law Review in the Age of Cyberspace"

Medical Technology--Cloning

• Bah Cloning
  short essay warning the lay person to resist the media hype of human cloning by the unscrupulous entrepreneur.
• Foundation for Biomedical Research
  site answers common questions about animal research and includes numerous links to other informative sites.
  
• The Gene Letter
  very resourceful site addresses a large number of cloning issues.
• Human Cloning Foundation
  This site supports and promotes cloning and provides various links to informative sites and biographies of its best-known supporters.
• National Institutes of Health
  
• New Scientist "Cloning: A Special Report"
  site from the New Scientist presents a multi-layered exploration of cloning Dolly the sheep and the implications for humans.
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
  This site, maintained by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, condemns animal research.
• President's Commission Issues Cloning Recommendations
  This site from the American Association for the Advancement of Science presents an overview of cloning from the perspective of the U.S. Congress in 1997.
  
• Should Cloning Be Banned?
  Reason Magazine enters the cloning debate, providing numerous links in the process.